Atos has been awarded a contract by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) for the hosting, housing, maintenance, management, and public cloud migration of its SAP centric IT infrastructure.
The contract is for an initial term of five years and can be extended for a further five years.
Under the terms of the agreement, the French IT service and consulting firm will be in charge of providing support for the SAP centric operations system, which is used by the Dutch ministry for financial processes, procurement, and execution of the budget.
IenW Deputy Secretary General Hillie Beentjes and IenW CIO Mirjam Werges said: “With Atos, we look forward to an assured continued partnership with focus on a managed and secure transition to deliver an SAP system to strengthen our innovative capacity and deliver complete scalability in line with our changing capacity requirements, while driving efficiencies and, critically, providing absolute continuity of service throughout.”
According to Atos, its Atos OneCloud solution will enable the migration of the ministry’s SAP system to Microsoft Azure public cloud in a two-phase approach. This will be followed by the optimisation of business processes to move to a Software-as-a-Service model.
The new contract will allow Atos to remain as the ministry’s main SAP partner for the transformation of its SAP system and requirements.
In the second phase of the migration, Atos will redesign the processes, change management, and implement the business process improvement (BPI) tooling.
Atos Netherlands head Peter ‘t Jong said: “In partnership, we are focused on delivering the next stage in the SAP transformation of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.
“It is our responsibility to deliver seamless critical back-office operations, drawing on our deep SAP, public cloud and secure migration capabilities and the power of Atos OneCloud. This will enable the Ministry to continue to build powerful connections by road, rail, water and air in the Netherlands.”
Sourced from NS Business Hub